Pirates (44-53) at Rockies (42-57)3:05–Coors Field, DenverZach Duke (4-6, 4.40) vs. Aaron Cook (11-6, 3.57)[Preview]———-Not much to say about this one. The Rockies are going for a four game sweep. These Rockies were 18 games under .500 before this series started. They’d been on a 4 game losing streak and had scored 2 runs total in those four games. Today, they can sweep us in a four game series.—Aaron Cook is the Rockies’ best pitcher. He’s a lot better than Glendon Rusch and Jorge De La Rosa, who we scored 3 combined runs against. Cook pitched 3 Houdini-like innings late in the All Star game to keep it tied.—By comparison, Zach Duke starts for us. Duke’s been slowly falling away from the consistent, improved pitcher we were seeing at the start of the year. His last start was very bad and Coors Field is not an ideal place for him to pitch. However, he’s 2-0, 2.77 vs. the Rockies in his career. Go figure.—The Bucs need a win today (they haven’t won in a calendar week), but the ESPN.com/Accuscore prediction thing somehow has the Rox at a remarkable 69% favorite. Still, crazier things have happened.–